Monday, December 28, 2009

Christmas 2009

Kansas City had it's first white Christmas in many years - and it was a doozy. There were blizzard conditions on Christmas Eve night. Normally we spend Christmas Eve at Mom and Dad's and then they come to our house on Christmas Day. Due to the weather - we did things a little differently. Everyone (see picture) came to our house on Christmas Eve for our traditional chili, eats, sweets and Trivial Pursuit.




Mom, Dad and Vanessa spent the night with us and were here for Christmas morning. It was great to have them here on Christmas morning and they didn't have to get out in the blizzard. (well me and Dad did for a little while - but that's another story). Anyway, Trent and family went home around 10:00pm since they were going to the Wilson's on Christmas Day. They arrived safe and sound after dropping off Jill's boyfriend Josh and then picking up Jake's friend Tim. Mom, Dad and Nan stayed until around 4:00 on Christmas Day. The roads probably weren't much better than they were the night before - but at least it was daylight and had stopped snowing. It was quite an ordeal to dig their cars out of our driveway. Brad and the boys helped. I mostly stood in the garage doorway and yelled "watch out!", "stop!" and "be careful!" to everyone. :)


All in all - I really enjoyed our Christmas this year.
I guess we aren't quite done yet. Taryn, Brady, Hunter and Autumn will be here in a couple days for their Christmas visit with us. Looking forward to seeing them!

1 comment:

daddycha0s said...

I didn't quite make it home safe and sound. I did hit Vanessa's car when I was backing out of the driveway. (That wasn't really weather-related. It had more to do with not being able to see behind me.)